CVE-2023-41074 Code injection in Safari

What is CVE-2023-41074?

CVE-2023-41074 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Apple Ipados, published on 26 Sep 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in tvOS 17, Safari 17, watchOS 10, iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma 14. Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-41074?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including java, java-min and jre. It affects 8 products.

Products include Apple Ipados, Apple Iphone Os, Apple Macos, Apple Safari, Apple Tvos, Apple Watchos and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2023-41074?

Upgrade java to a fixed version for your release line: 1.8.0 or 8.0.411.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2023-41074 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-41074 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apple Ipados

• CVE-2025-43300 Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2025-24201 Apple Multiple Products WebKit Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2025-24085 Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2025-31200 Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-31201 Apple Multiple Products Arbitrary Read and Write Exploited Critical 9.8

All Apple Ipados vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-java-2023-41074, BIT-java-min-2023-41074, BIT-jre-2023-41074, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-41074, GHSA-xq9m-9whg-jv3m, MINI-jrc2-5rmv-22jc and 1 more.